Public use of waterfronts is under great pressure. Urban coastal developments seem to neglect the public, social and cultural importance of urban life at these seafronts. These developments show a tendency to focus on strategies that exclude local people and migration movements from the shores and emphasizes on touristic visitors as a more interesting source of revenues. That may lead to conflicts, estrangements, loss of heritage and loss of more informal cultural and economic uses of public coastal space.

SICA FUNDING FOR NLTR400 IN 2012
In 2012, Turkey and the Netherlands will mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Turkey Institute and SICA - Dutch centre for international cultural activities - have been tasked by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate the Turkey–The Netherlands 2012 program.
Satellietgroep applied for funding as part of the exchange project Black Sea - North Sea and we are very proud our application is granted.
The project will involve research based air programs for artists/filmmakers in coastal transistion areas around the Black Sea to develop new works, select existing works and program a traveling filmfestival.

Satellietgroep is developing with graphic design Studio Duel, co-founders of Satellietgroep, a photographic work with the total size of 21 x 3 meters. Day and night all yearly 11.8 million visitors of Scheveningen will be able to see the works made by artist in residence of BADGAST and our pool of photographers.

Future coastal scenario's for The Hague Scheveningen starting 2050, initiated by Deltaprogramma Kust, provincies Zuid- en Noord-Holland, The Hague and TU Delft. October 6 the presentation of City by the Sea was at FAST.
More: www.atelierkustkwaliteit.nl

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Exchangeproject Turkey - The Netherlands:
CONCERNING THE SEA: COMBINE, COMPARE OR CONFLICT?
For CCC @ ART PIE Istanbul 2010 Satellietgroep screened 14 videoworks - both conceptual and documentary - that reflect on the conceptual, social and urban impact of the sea and waterways in both Turkey and The Netherlands. In exhange we screened the collected material in the Cinema at Sea @ BADGAST in the Netherlands in 2011.